ME WE + THE MACHINE is a research project that’s been emerging for the past four years, through a range of collaborations, to explore a really big idea:
+Can we leave behind surveillance capitalism by replacing it with a ME/WE MACHINE designed for a new system of valuation based on care, connection, accessibility, equity, and human, community and ecological health?
+What are the frameworks, methodologies, practices, and tools that will amplify hyper-local community values, knowledge and wisdom, and bridge it to a hyper-global network built for and sustained by human(e) connection and collective ownership?
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Here’s a sample of the work and thinking developed thus far:
You are Here + So Are You = That’s Really Worth Something
Feminizing The Machine
Community + Stories + Data
Creative Exchange Lab pilot
TWIST360: Gender Identity Through a Queer Lens
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ME WE + THE MACHINE collaborators are artists, filmmakers, activists and educators who hail from the art+technology collectives BEANOTHERLAB and FEARLESS. The collaboration builds on over twenty-five years of working at the intersection of community storytelling and technology - from advocating for cable access in the 1990s to hacking Oculus Rift to facilitate human connection and prototyping a community story archive in public digital ether.
The first iteration of the project began at the TWIST360º Queer Immersive Festival (Seattle) in 2016 with subsequent presentations at University of Washington, Antioch University, Pacific Science Center (Seattle), Seattle Public Library, Hangar (Barcelona), The Technology, Gender, Sexuality and Rights Institute (Amsterdam), and, in 2019, at the feminist human rights forum Reconference (Nepal).
